The Miss World Canada contest is an beauty pageant, held mostly annually in various incarnations and with several different names since 1957, to select Canada's representative to the Miss World contest. The Canadian franchise was currently owned by Upstage This! Productions, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Katherine Grefner was asked to relinquish ownership after biased corruption that led to major sponsors leaving the franchise.
Canada began competing in Miss World in 1957, when the contest was known as Miss Maple-Leaf Canada. The winner, Judy Welch, was Canada's first Miss world contestant—unfortunately, she contracted the Asian flu and was unable to compete in the finals. Canada has yet to win the Miss World title, however Canadians have placed as first runner-up on three separate occasions. The first was in 1984 with Connie Fitzpatrick, again in 1989 with Leanne Caputo, and the third in 2003 with Nazanin Afshin-Jam. Canada has also placed semi-finalists a handful of times.
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